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Akali Balance suggestion

Ãkâli·1/29/2020, 1:41:49 PM·5 votes·5,083 views

Since Akali has been either extremely viable in pro play or straight trash for a couple patches since her rework. Can we take a moment to stop hitting her kit and cooldowns and instead look at what the pros are abusing on her that's gone ignored for months? She excels with Conq more than any other champion. Hence why those patches where she was not pro viable she had a 42% win rate.

Why is that?

Easy answer, it's 15% healing from ALL damage dealt. This isn't so bad on paper but for an assassin who takes long trades this is excessive.

My proposal: Conq should be changed from all damage dealt to 15% healing from Physical damage dealt. This way mages like Cassi can not abuse it anymore, Akali who deals mostly magic damage cannot run it nearly to the same effectiveness, and every other champion who loves conq and its their default rune, are left perfectly untouched. This would directly hit Mages who can abuse it, Katarina, Akali, AP based people.. This is perfectly fine because every single one of them is extremely viable taking several other runes.

Edit: As a reply has stated, Morde is the only AP bruiser who NEEDS conq. He would need compensation buffs in response after seeing how negatively the change impacted him. Most likely something to help him with his sustain as that is what he'd be losing. Perhaps higher base hp regen or more healing on his W, I'm not an expert on Morde so I cannot suggest exactly what would be the ideal change. Sylas is the other AP Bruiser who would be impacted but he is perfectly viable with Electrocute

Edit 2: Some of you believe hitting conq will mess with too many mages and isn't the right change, I propose an alternative change, specific to akali. Make it so that her abilities CANNOT give her conq stacks, as it stands she stacks it the fastest out of anyone because a standard trade for her gives her full stacks without using shroud for energy, thus letting her continue the fight with all that healing before you even have it stacked. Q each gives 2 stacks, E1 gives 2 stacks, E2, gives 2 stacks, atleast two autos in there for her guaranteed two Q's that she used in a trade opener. Each auto gives 2 stacks. and that's all without using shroud.

28 Comments

DuskDaUmbreon1/29/2020, 2:18:37 PM5 votes

So...a giant middle finger to Mordekaiser? And any other AP bruiser-y champion?

IP Masquerena1/29/2020, 1:45:09 PM4 votes

I'm game.

May I also suggest removing energy from Presence of Mind? She's the only energy user that takes it anyway and it's too good on her.

Glory971/29/2020, 2:32:15 PM4 votes

I don't think that's a good idea. Akali wasn't weak at all without conqeueror. She had insanely high priority at worlds, and that was before conqueror was reworked. And I don't think for the sake of nerfing akali all other ap-champs should be forbidden from taking conqueror.

Conqueror is an interesting choice for mages, because it is a rune designed for long continous fighting. All the other runes that mages have are just "does more dmg when you burst somebody": Comet, Electrocute, Dark Harvest. And well aery and phase rush for those specific kits that can make use of extra utility. I'd prefer if riot just gives direct nerfs to cassio kata and morde when they overperform instead of disallowing all mages from choosing a rune that helps them out in long continous fights.

Garson2111/29/2020, 2:40:35 PM3 votes

I have suggestion as well :

1 Delete this abomination

Thank you

Nyarlathοtep1/29/2020, 5:57:04 PM3 votes

more healing on his W

Unfortunately the way his w works, you never want the heal in combat, which is why he likes conq.

2gudaiya1/29/2020, 3:05:46 PM2 votes

the champion is fine guys, stop nerfing her and put a real tank MR item in the game instead.

FakeGravity1/29/2020, 11:42:03 PM2 votes

remove her dual scaling? then she stop building gunblade or is force to take it even if she gets nothing from the ad, does she even build any AD beside gunblade?

Ragnaveil1/29/2020, 9:03:35 PM2 votes

Her passive just needs a cooldown early game, thats about it.

MaliceOfRites1/29/2020, 2:01:30 PM2 votes

Lol conqueror isnt a problem at all, her passive and Q + AA + Q + AA + Q + AA spam is. They nerfed every living thing from akali but did not touch passive single time

boricCentaur11/29/2020, 1:58:28 PM1 votes

Would be nice for Riot to actually look at why people in high elo and pro use her for instead of adding more counter play and nerfing shit that effects normal players more not the 1%.